A proposed class action lawsuit is accusing a former B.C. jail guard of sexually assaulting more than 200 inmates, and taking aim at the province for its alleged failure to do anything about it.
Filed in the B.C. Supreme Court on Monday (April 15), the lawsuit claims that the BC Corrections officer preyed on “younger,” “physically fit” men across four Lower Mainland prisons from 1976 to 1997.
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